by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 7, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Food Industry Technology, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Technology, Public Health, Terrorism, The Future, Uncategorized
A very complex agricultural landscape: It’s hard to understate California’s agricultural significance: On just 1.2 percent of U.S. farmland, California produces more than a third of the country’s vegetables and about two-thirds of its fruits and...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 3, 2017 | Animal Feed Safety, Bobs Blog, Public Health, Uncategorized
Should corporate confidentiality trump food safety concerns? The FDA has finally came clean about a dirty food production operation, naming Dixie Dew Products Inc. of Erlanger, Ky., as the manufacturer of soy-based “goo” marketed as an allergen-free...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 10, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Process Security, Public Health, Uncategorized
Three AI cases confirmed this week: Three cases of avian influence (AI) this week at U.S. poultry farms have raised the specter of the 2015 AI outbreak that USDA calls the largest animal health emergency in U.S. history. The 2015 outbreak led to nearly 50 million...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Nov 17, 2016 | Bobs Blog, Public Health
Avian flu is probably coming back, says the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). In an interview with Reuters, an OIE official said the level of exposure in wild birds is indicative of high avian flu activity. In the last few weeks eight European countries, in...
